Current user of Ubuntu 10.10 or 10.04 LTS can be update their version by pressing Alt+F2 and typing "update-manager -d" [without the quotes] into the command box.For the virtual machine user,it can be installed as same as Ubuntu 11.04 Beta version.For installation click here.

The last version was Ubuntu 10.10 'Maverick Meerkat' released in October, 2010.After that Ubuntu 11.04 'Natty Narwhal' released yesterday and next Ubuntu will be 11.10 'Oneric Ocelot' and keep the alphabetical order.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Ubuntu 6.06 [Dapper Drake] reaches its end of life at June 1,2011 on Wednesday.On June 1,2006, 5 years ago Ubuntu 6.06 released.Ubuntu Securities Notices will not generate information or update packages for Ubuntu 6.06.The supported upgrade path from Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server is via Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server.Mark Shuttleworth, the Founder of Ubuntu and Jono Bacon, the Ubuntu Community Manager conclude that Ubuntu 6.06 [Dapper Drake] was the huge milestone fro Ubuntu community and after five year of its release we are still proud of it and how it served our users.So its time for say bye bye to Ubuntu 6.06 and welcome the Ubuntu 11.04 on April 28,2011.

There is a good news for fedora users, after released of the fedora 15 alpha "lovelock" the fedora 15 beta release yesterday on 19th of april.Now the way of the general release of fedora 15 not so far because they release it in may,2011.Now critical bugs will fix in the general fedora 15.This version of fedora contain GNOME 3 desktop and the Xfce and LXDE also have been updated.There is many new development tools for coders like OCaml 3.12,Python 3.2 and Ralis 3.0.3.It contain dynamic firewall which change it settings without restart it.It supports application building,virtual machine,virtual supports and cloud environment.

here we show the method of how to install ubuntu 11.04 on vmware workstation 7 step by step.

open vmware workstation 7 and click on the “new virtual machine” then select “typical”[already selected] and click on the next.

then select the option “installer disk image file (iso)” then select the path of iso image of mint 10 xfce and click next.

then enter your name,username,password and click next.

then give the name of virtual box and select the path and click next.

then select “split virtual disk into 2 GB files” it gives you advantage to transfer the virtual machine into the other hardware, and give the disk space to the virtual machine [min:4GB] and click next.

now customize hardware according to your need and set RAM according to your total ram [512 MB RAM is enough to work with mint 10 xfce] and click on finish.

now turn on the virtual machine.

now select your language as "English[United States]" and click forward.

now select your timezone.[here "asia/kolkata"]

now in keyboard layout do not make any change select "USA" bydefault and click forward.

here we show the method of how to install ubuntu 11.04 on vmware workstation 7 step by step.

open vmware workstation 7 and click on the "new virtual machine" then select "typical"[already selected] and click on the next.

then select the option "installer disk image file (iso)" then select the path of iso image and click next.

then enter your name,username,password and click next.

then give the name of virtual box and select the path and click next.

then select "split virtual disk into 2 GB files" it gives you advantage to transfer the virtual machine into the other hardware, and give the disk space to the virtual machine [min:4GB] and click next.

now customize hardware according to your need and set RAM according to your total ram [512 MB RAM is enough to work with ubuntu 11.04] and click on finish.

your ubuntu is ready to install on your virtual box.

now open your virtual machine and give keyboard layout and pattern as "USA" an click forward.

wait until the process is complete and then enter your password ane ubuntu screen will apear.

first time update all the drivers from "menu -> system -> administrtation -> update manager" and update all the software first time it will take a long time.

enjoy ubuntu 11.04 on your vmware workstation 7.

you can install other linux like mint,fedora,debian,suse etc by this method.